Corn-harvester.



PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

J. E. GOODHUE. CORN HARVESTER. APPLICATION FILED ooT.29, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec..25, 19.06. i

To` all wlom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES E. GooDHUE, a citizen of the United States,residin at St. Charles, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in CornHarvesters, of whichthev tion in addition to their snapping function;

and lto this end my inventionconsists 1n the construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed to render the snapping-rollers also husking orstripping rollers..

In the accompanying drawinvs, Figurel is a view in side elevation,mainlny dotted, of a corn-harvester containing my improved rollers; Fig.2, a View in elevation of one of the two similar improved rollers, andFig. 3 an enlarged cross-sectional view diagram- -matic in its naturetaken through the two `coperating1rollers and representing them in theact of corn. A

A denotes in its entirety a corn-harvester, that illustrated being as toall details except the rollers to which my invention relates like thatshown and described in my aforesaid Letters Patent, No. 788,205, so thatit usking and snapping an ear of is unnecessary herein to describe thatmachine. However, my present improvement is not intended to be limitedfor use with that particular construction of corn-harvester.

B and C are the two similar rollers adapted to be journaled, as usual,at their opposite ends in the frame of the machine A. From the lower endof each roller to a point about midway between its ends it is providedwith double spiral blades a b of uniform thickness throughout, formingthe grooves c. The blade a, terminates at its upper end in a widerspiral section a', having blunt teeth a2 formed about it, and a similarsection b terminates the corresponding end of the spiral b and isprovided with teeth b2, like the teeth a2. Beyond the section b2 theroller is preferably fluted to its upper end, as represented at d. Theserollers are mounted in the machine A and are actuated as set forth in myaforesaid Letters Patent No. 788,205.

In the travel of the machine along a .row of standing corn thecornstalks in succession enter the space between the rollers at theirlower or forward ends and are enga ed and steadied by the coperatingspira s upon them. As the rollers rise along a stalk until y the toothedsections a b engage the base portion of an ear of corn (represented at Din Fig. 3) the rotation of the rollers causes the teeth of thesecooperating sections to bite into the husk at the base of the ear andexert upon it the initial gathering and resultant stripping action,(indicated said re which is succeeded under the contlnued action of thelteeth by snapping the ear., as at fr, and thereafter the continuedaction of the toothed sections advances the ear through and forces itout of the husk, which thus remains attached to the stalk, while the earis thrown out. Any waste that may be separated from the stalk and huskby the described operations of the rollers is carried u ward betweentheir iuted sections d and discharged from the machine before they canenter and clog its gearing. f

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Y1. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination-with the frame, of apair of inclined, rotary and cooperating combined snapping and huskingrollers provided alon their lower forward en`d portions with spirablades forming stalk-engaging grooves and terminating at their upperends in toothed sections, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination with the frame,I of apair of inclined, rotary and coperating combined snap ing and huskingrollers, provided along t eir lower forward end portions with spiralblades forming stalk-engaging -grooves and terminating at their4 upperends in toothed sections, with fluted sections on the upper and IOC rearend ortions of the rollers, for the purl forming stalk-engaging grooves,each blade pose set orth. v Y terminating at its upper end in a. toothed3. In a, corn-harvesting machine, the comsection, for the purpose setfortl. bination with the frcme, of a pair of inclined, JAMES E.GOODHUE-` 5 rotary and co erating combined snapping In presence of i andhusking ro ers, each provided along its W. B. DAVIES, lower forward endportion with spiral blades i C. W. WASHBURNE.

